Development of Darwin's theory - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Barnacles
A single barnacle species was left to describe, and Darwin began dissecting with the assistance of Hooker who was now at Kew. To compare ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Domain: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Domain - Disclaimer Of Interest
Laws may make some types of works and inventions ineligible for monopoly; such works immediately enter the public domain upon publication...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin - Life
Charles Darwin - Early life. Main article: Charles Darwin's education Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - From Ancient Times To 1850s
See also History of creationism and Evolutionism. The idea of biological evolution was supported in ancient times, notably among Hellenis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Domain: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Domain - Expiration
In the United States, copyright law has changed several times since the founding of the country. All copyrights and patents have always h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin - Religious Views
Charles Darwin came from a Nonconformist background. Though several members of his family were Freethinkers, openly lacking conventional ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Domain: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Domain - Public Domain And The Internet
The term "public domain" is often poorly understood and has created significant legal controversy. Historically, most parties attempting ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - Unconventional Extensions To Evolutionary Ideas
History of evolutionary thought - De Chardin's and Huxley's theories. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley formulated theories ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin - Legacy
Charles Darwin's theory that evolution occurred through natural selection changed the thinking of countless fields of study from biology ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Domain: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Domain - No Legal Restriction On Use
A creative work is said to be in the public domain if there are no laws which restrict its use by the public at large. There may be no la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - Recent Developments In Evolutionary Theory
Daniel Dennett (1995) argues in Darwin's Dangerous Idea that natural selection is an algorithmic process applicable to many circumstances...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin - Works
Charles Darwin - Published works. 1836: A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, &c. – BY CAPT. R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - 1920s-1940s: The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis
Main article: Modern evolutionary synthesis These questions of interpretation were not settled until the early 20th century, beginning wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - 1850s - Early 20th Century: Darwin's Theory
Main articles: Inception of Darwin's theory, Development of Darwin's theory, Publication of Darwin's theory, Reaction to Darwin's theory ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - 1940s-1960s: Developments Following Molecular Biology
In the 1940s, following up on Griffith's experiment, Avery, McCleod and McCarty definitively identified deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - 1960s-1980s: Williams Revolution Punctuated Equilibrium
Coined after the evolutionary biologist, George C. Williams, the Williams revolution is a paradigm shift which occurred in evolutionary b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Evolutionary Thought: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Evolutionary Thought - 1970s-2000s: Evolutionary Biology As A Discipline
Evolutionary biology as an academic discipline in its own right emerged as a result of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Renewal Of Work On Species
By September 1854 his second volume of Barnacles had been printed and dispatched, and he turned his attention to Species, telling his cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Married Life
In 1839, now married to Emma and settled in foggy London, Darwin continued to look to the countryside for information and began a Questio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Background
Charles Darwin became a naturalist at a point in the history of evolutionary thought when theories of Transmutation were being developed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - First Writings On The Theory
In January 1842 Darwin sent a tentative description of his ideas in a letter to Lyell, who was then touring America. Lyell, dismayed that...   » Read the article